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All but 5 students in a certain calculus class took the final exam on the scheduled day. The mean score for these students was m. Later, the 5 students who had missed the scheduled exam took it and the mean score for the entire class was calculated. If n represents the mean score of the entire class, is n greater than m?

(1) The mode score for the entire class was higher than the mode score for the students who took the exam on the scheduled day.

(2) The range of the scores for the entire class was the same as the range of the scores for the students who took the exam on the scheduled day.

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Neither mode nor range can help us with the mean if we are adding 5 people. There are too many variations possible. I see that we are not given the number of students in the class either. So all I will do to convince myself that the answer is (E) is find a case in which the means are equal. Then a slight twist will establish insufficiency. 

Say this is what the result of the class without the 5 looks like. Say mean is 30 (= m) and the mode is 30.
10 ..........................29, 30, 30, 31.......................... 50

Say these are the scores of the 5 students with higher mode of 31.
27, 28, 31, 31, 33

Then this is what the result of the entire class looks like. Mean n = 30, mode is 31, range is same 40.
10 ....................27, 28, 29, 30, 30, 31, 31, 31, 33 ........................... 50
(The mode score for the entire class was higher than the mode score for the students who took the exam on the scheduled day.)

Now if  I reduce the smallest score of the 5 students to 20, the mean n will reduce to less than 30.
But if I increase the greatest score of the 5 students to 40, the mean n will increase to more than 30. 
Hence n may be less than, equal to or greater than m.

Answer (E)
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Visualization is the key here.

So we need to answer question whether average of all class greater than subset of class?

Visualize A
The mode score for the entire class was higher than the mode score for the students who took the exam on the scheduled day.
Mode of a new set is above average of subset then n>m,
If mode is below average for original subset n<m
Not Sufficient

Visualize B
The range of the scores for the entire class was the same as the range of the scores for the students who took the exam on the scheduled day.
Again range is same for both sets but
If the additional 5 numbers are above average of original subset n>m
If the additional 5 numbers are below average of original subset n<m
Not Sufficient

Combined
even if we combine both the cases will still persist.
So Not sufficient - E
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­guddo This one is from the official GMAT Focus practice exams? If so, do you know which exam number? Thanks!
This question is from the GMAT official practice exam 3.
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